Possible targets of "magic spots" in plant signalling

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1021-1023

  Masuda, Shinji ^a   Tozawa, Yuzuru ^b   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplasts; Cytokinin; ppGpp; RelA; SpoT; Stringent response

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 56049119193     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6766     Document Type: Article

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